Madison times. (Tallulah, Madison Parish, La.) 1884-1???, 1887-10-29
WHY Is THLS2

The New York Sun earnestly
advocated the nomination of AS
sistant District Attorney Delaney
NIcoll for District Attorney. Mr..
Nicoll managed the Doodle alder
men cases and the jake Sharp case.
The present District Attorney Of
New York, Mr.. MARITIME is not a
candidate for denomination. lie
expects and deserves a judgeship.
There was general popular de-
demand, fey the nomination OF NJ.
Nicoll. OF course the boodlers
who are in exile, and their friends
and sympathizers who arc not,
are opposed naturally TO Mr..
NicoiI. The World, San and Her
aid all favored Mr.. Nicoll. The
Herald demanded it. The Sun
advocatedit, and The World favor
ed it.
The Herald published article
after article in favor of Air. Nicoll's
nomination so did the Sun. Yet
they both flop suddenly to the other
track and oppose it. The Herald
was ever Il Hopper and trimmer. l.
always cprriGd favor with the rul-
ing powers, and its 1lop was not a
surprise. The Sun was always
malicious. Pretending TO be dem
ocratlc, it was only so because
Dana was disappointed in getting
what he wanted. 1t had large
circulation in the South because of
its supposed democracy, and no
meaner, low flung, malicious, things
were ever said about the South and
the Southern people, than were
said by the Sun.
After advocating the nomination
of Mr.. Nicoll the Sun came out one
morning last week with this:
So far as we have known Mr..
NicOll and SO far as we have watch
ed his course, we have learned to
esteem him highly. But the more
we admire the attainments of so
young and promising a lawyer, the
more profoundly we deplore his
association with the World and the
championship, of which, success
jul or unsuccessful, he must be the
victim. We have Withdrawn from
our support of Mr.. Nicoll because
we distrust the World and its mo-
lives and because more than sus-
picion exists to indicate what these
motives are. Col. Jno. K. Stay
back was shot and killed, under
shocking circumstances, in St.
Louis, in the editorial rooms q
Mr.. Pulitzer's newspaper, by
Col. Jno. K. Cockerill, then as now
Mr.. Pulitzer's managing editor. 1t
has been charged that the reason
why the st. Louis Grand Jury fai :
ed to indlct Col. Cockerill for muir
der, was that such was the degree
of Mr.. Pulitzer'S hold upon the
District-AttOrney Of st. Louis and
his administration that the indict-
ment was frustrated. We can Sc
no avoidance of the truth or the
effect Of these statements, but it is
our manifest duty to take account
of them in the light Of an unprece-
dented, frantic and astounding
effort which the same men are now
making to obtain what is virtually
the control of the District Attor.
ney's Office.
This, from the Sun, from Charles
| A. Dana, from the man who
struck a woman, who appealed to
him for help on the wreck Of
n Sound steamer, q few years ago
Joe Mulhattan is nowhere, Eli Per.
kins is truth personificd, Tom
Ochiltree is an angel, and re-
publican campaign circular, Cos
pei truth, beside of this.
The World was in favor of Mr.
Nicoll all along, and the Sun knew
1T. Can its admirers explain this
sudden change of-not heart-for
Dana has none, but this sudden
change of front2 Subscribe for a
straight out democratic paper for a
straight-out republican paper, but
drop a malicious, venomous, paper
that plays into the hands of the
bribers and corruptionists.